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- Title
Paradigms and theories in water governance: the case of South Africa's National Water Resource Strategy, Second Edition.
- Authors
Meissner, Richard
- Abstract
This paper indicates the influence of paradigms and theories on the development of South Africa's National Water Resource Strategy, Second Edition. Five paradigms exist: positivism, postpositivism, interpretivism/constructivism, critical theories and the participatory paradigm. I use the PULSE3 framework for analysis that I developed to analyse the NWRS2. I found that positivism is the dominant paradigm influencing the NWRS2. I furthermore analyse the strategy through two alternative theories: agential power and the ambiguity theory of leadership. These theories are interpretivist/constructivist type theories. My argument is for the integration of paradigms through the utilisation of analytic eclecticism. In light of positivism's dominance, I conclude that water research can be more innovative through the integration of paradigms and alternative theories.
- Subjects
SOUTHERN Africa; WATER conservation; CONSERVATION of natural resources; WATER supply; STREAMFLOW
- Publication
Water SA, 2016, Vol 42, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0378-4738
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4314/wsa.v42i1.01